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This is a case of the “everyone except me is an idiot” fallacy.

What actually happens with these people is they are pragmatically cargo-culting - because it helps them achieve some other aim, like delivering business value - until their abstractions leak and they have to go uncover the truth.

People grow and learn when they need to :)

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It depends; sometimes yes, sometimes not. In my experience, described phenomena certainly exists.

Nothing wrong with delivering business value - that's what mostly software is about after all; here, I am talking about pure incompetence and a certain approach that only reinforces it

You are assuming people are a still photograph of what you see in the fraction of a moment that it takes you to judge them, and they never ever change, not even after you’ve left and stopped paying attention.

That’s not how you work and it’s not how people work. It’s not how anyone works. Give others some credit.

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